Steve Bass, a columnist at PC World, points us to this fascinating exhibit of the work of "statistical artist" (Is that a term of art?) Chris Jordan.

"Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find ...   more »